RBL List selection

[Steve Freegard]

Hi Gordon,

Gordon Colyn wrote:
> ITNT Banner Campaignhi all,
> 
> I am finding that my incoming queue is groing to approx 1500 to 2000 
> messages during high message loads and on investigation it seems that a 
> large delay is in the process of checking against the RBL's.  Can anyone 
> suggest the best minimum config to get the best result?  Currently I am only 
> pushing approx 30,000 messages a day through the server...
> 
> I am using;
> 
> Spam List = spamcop.net ORDB-RBL spamhaus.org spamhaus-XBL SBL+XBL NJABL 
> SORBS-SMTP CBL RSL DSBL SORBS-DUL
> 
> and
> 
> Spam Domain List = SORBS-BADCONF SORBS-NOMAIL
> 

Personally - I wouldn't use any here at all.  Use the 
sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org in your MTA to reject listed servers at the SMTP 
level, then let SpamAssassin score the rest of the blacklists.

Cheers,
Steve.